Donald Trump moved closer to reach a stimulus deal with Pelosi. This will test if the Democratic House speaker either just playing politics or has the intent to help. 

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Pres. Donald Trump has always been pushing for the second round of stimulus payment including stimulus checks and more relief aids. He told the Republican lawmakers recently to embrace a larger amount of stimulus package just to reach a deal. 

This move of Pres. Trump will test Pelosi's sense of urgency. She has been rejecting the stimulus proposal of the White House and Republican lawmaker. In fact, she does not even have the intention to approve the roughly $2 trillion stimulus package offered by both Republican and Democratic Representatives. 

Now that Pres. Trump is moving closer to reach the stimulus deal, this will also test the real intention of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If she will decline the new stimulus package with the amount that she wants, then that only shows that an almost a month of rejection was all part of her political drama. 

Pelosi is now facing a crucial decision. Does she try to negotiate an agreement with a White House that suddenly seems ready to deal or continue to hold her ground and make Trump, facing his own election woes, swallow the sweeping $2.2 trillion bill she has long demanded?

According to a published report in The Washington Post, Pelosi called the U.S. Treasury Secretary on Wednesday and told him to call her back if Pres. Trump is ready for the $2.2 trillion. Now that Pres. Trump has signaled that he is ready for a new talk, it seems that Pelosi is afraid to reach the deal. 

Pelosi knew that once the new stimulus package will be signed into law, it will boost the presidential bid of Pres. Trump. Meanwhile, rejecting again for the seventh time the new proposal will harm their party. Voters might blame the, for not acting in the relief aid. 

Moreover, there is a growing tension today within the rank of Democrats because the consistent rejection of Pelosi to reach a new stimulus bill has led to the creation of a bipartisan group. They offered roughly $2 trillion worth of new stimulus but Pelosi chose not to accept it. 

She even told Democratic members of the Bipartisan group not to be a cheap deal. However, the Democratic Representatives who are seeking for reelection do not want to return in their home with the stimulus bill being approved. They knew that this will not help their reelection bid. 

Rep. Andy Kim, who flipped a GOP district in New Jersey last election, said "We should have that same level of urgency that we had when we were dealing with this in March and April. And I don't really get that sense that that type of just timeliness and that urgency is underlying what everybody here is feeling right now."

It can also be remembered that more than 100 Democrat Representatives wrote a letter to Pelosi and asked her to act on the new stimulus.

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